My Ghost Pro site (cgstrategylab.com) disappeared from Google search results after making recent content updates.
Issue: My robots.txt file is missing the “Allow: /” directive, blocking Google from crawling my main content pages.
Current robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://cgstrategylab.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /ghost/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /members/api/comments/counts/
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /webmentions/receive/
Needed fix: Add “Allow: /” after “User-agent: *”
Impact: Google Search Console shows sitemap submitted successfully but 0 discovered pages due to robots.txt blocking.
This appears to be a known issue affecting multiple Ghost Pro users. Can Ghost support add the Allow directive to my robots.txt file?
I’ve also emailed support@ghost.org but posting here for faster resolution.
Thanks!
Are you on 6.0, or 5.something?
Updated to latest 6.0 version yesterday.
I looked at the code. Blaming Ghost/ghost/core/core/frontend/public/robots.txt at main · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub
That file hasn’t change this year, so it’s not a 6.0 bug. My site uses the same file and is indexed fine.
It may be something about your configuration. Do you have published posts? When you visit sitemap-posts.xml, do you see them?
OK, so you submitted your sitemap in Google search console? How long ago? It should be able to pick up your posts.
I just submitted it but it is not able to see any pages.
I suggest giving it a couple hours. GSC updates slooooowwwwly. 
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Haha okay. I am not that technical when it comes to SEO, etc. But I was trying to get the robot.txt issue which seems like a legit one resolved (based on my chat with Open AI / Claude :p).
I have dropped a note to the support team. Seems like its something that is fixed from back end or by using custom code injection.
Custom code injection to solve this issue needs a Theme change / custom theme apparently.
And I prefer that it gets solved directly from the backend by the Ghost Support team. So waiting for their response.
Hey no problem. If you’d prefer a reply from the support team and/or AI, I’ll go ahead and unlist this (which is probably what I should have done when you said you were a Ghost Pro customer anyway, oops). Have a great one.
No. I dint mean for you to unlist this.
I just wanted to share that I have already written to Ghost Support. Appreciate all the insights you have provided.
